Unity-2d packages in Raring

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 2 07:57:26 UTC 2013


On 2 April 2013 08:11, Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le 01/04/2013 23:21, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
>
>> On Monday, April 01, 2013 10:15:41 PM Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1 April 2013 22:11, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Just out of interest does anyone know why, on Raring, I keep getting
>>>>> updates for unity-2d packages when unity-2d is, I thought, dead and
>>>>> buried?
>>>>
>>>> Seems odd unless you are less than 12.10 but there could always be a
>>>> deprecation period.
>>>
>>> I am on Raring.
>>> $ apt-cache policy unity-2d
>>> unity-2d:
>>>    Installed: 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1
>>>    Candidate: 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1
>>>    Version table:
>>>   *** 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1 0
>>>          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe i386
>>> Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>>
>>> I do notice that they are all (unity-2d, unity-2d-spread and so on)
>>> only a few kB each, perhaps they are just placeholders to satisfy
>>> dependencies that have not been cleaned up yet.  On the other hand I
>>> am getting updates to them every few days which seems odd.
>>
>> They are transitional packages that depend on unity to smooth updates.
>> Every
>> time unity gets updated, they get updated too.
>>
>> Scott K
>>
> As Scott told, they are from Unity sources.
>
> We need to keep them until next LTS as we support LTS to LTS upgrade so that
> people who only had unity-2d installed will get transitioned to the new
> Unity, even if they removed it in the previous LTS, so that they don't end
> up in an empty session upon upgrade.

OK, that makes sense.  Many thanks.

Colin




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